Laundry-table



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W. DICER.

LAUNDRY TABLE.

Patented Aug. 2,1881.

Fi -J INVENTEIH WITNESSEE' VATTEIFINEY V UN TED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM DIUER, OF MARENGO, MICHIGAN.

LAUNDRY-TABLE.

SPECIFTGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 245,144, dated August 2, 1881.

Application filed March 31, 1881. (N model.)

-the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved clamp for securing the table to its end support, to securing the bosom-board for small clothes to the large table, and to an improved arrange:

ment of the small tablet.

The object of my invention is, first, to give greater steadiness to the table; second, to provide a more convenient and eli'ective means of fastening small clothes to the upper tablet or bosom-board; third, to provide a convenient and expeditious way of connecting and discounecting the two ironing surfaces. I attain these objects by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation, showing the apparatus clamped to an ordinary kitchen-table. Fig. 2 is an end'elevation. Fig. 3 is a detail view, to be hereinafter referred to. Fig. 4 isa top view. Fig. 5 is a view of the under side with the leg L closed.

In the drawings, D is the princi'palironingsurface. 11 is an iron rod, having its ends a a screw threaded and bent at right angles to the part I), with a hand-nut, (1, upon each. These ends we pass down through the two blocks G G and through the top D, forming hangers for the two levers I I. The short ends 6 i of levers I I form clam pin g-j aws, operated by the pins n on the leg L, which is hinged to the table at 6. These levers I I are rigid, and united rigidly by means of the broad cross bar N.

The bar I) is supported by the blocks G G, and

forms a clamping-bridge, as will appear far- I ther on.

Near the inner end, a, of the base-board G is a transverse groove, a, formed to fit and receive the bar b, as shown in Fig. 3. The end 0 is formed to curve slightly eccentric to the curve of the groove, so that the thickness of 0 below the groove and bar I; is slightly in excess of the thickness of the supports at G G.

Upon the base-board G is fastened an inclined jaw, B, and a cleat, E. To this cleat is hinged a small bosomboard, A. This bosomboard is beveled at J to fit the inclined face ofjaw B. It also carries a cleat, I to support it in a horizontal position. 011 the under side, at the middle point of the outer eud,is a knob, 0. The operation of the apparatus is as follows: Set it up as shown in Fig. 1, and With the hand-nuts d 01 bring the short ends 2' z of the levers I I to a firm bearing on the object to which it is to be secured, and the long ends bearing upon the under side of the pins n on leg L. Now, when legLis foldedforward the ends 4; i of the levers are released from their hold upon the object to which they are attached. No readjustment of the hand-nuts will be necessary in clamping and unclamping to any object of the same thickness, as the levers will be operated by the folding and unfolding of leg L.

The use of the upper bosom-board, A, may beillustrated by applying itin ironing of a shirtfront, though it is by no means necessarily confined to that garment. Draw the body of the garment over the bosom-board A, bringing the neckband around under the pin or knob o, stretch the garment down, raise the bosom- .board to the position shown by the dotted lines, draw the shirt-body down between the beveled end J and jaw B, stretching the shirtfront smoothly upon the bosom-board A. Upon returning the bosom-board to its horizontal position the shirt-front is held securely stretched during the process of polishing. To remove the upper bosom-board, A, raise the base-board G to a vertical position, when it can readily be backed out from its connection with bar I).

By usingtwo levers united rigidly at their long ends by a broad bar, N, and connecting them at two points, a a, I secure a triangular construction and grasp the-support T at two widely-separated points, thus giving a firm and rigid support.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a laundry-table, the combination, with the board D, of the hinged leg L, provided with the projecting pins n n, the screw-threaded jaw B and cheat E, and the bosom-board A, 10 hinged to said cleat and beveled at its inner end, and provided with the cleat F, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM DIGER.

Wi tuesses:

SAML. J. HENDERSON, G. B. WEBSTER. 

